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Gate of the Temple Lodge

lodgeactivenot on UGLE listmo-422-gate-of-the-temple-lodge

Identity

Abbreviation
unknown
Jurisdiction
US-MO · Missouri
Also operates
unknown
Naming style
AF&AM
Claimed tradition
craft lodge under Grand Lodge of Missouri, A.F. & A.M.
Founded
unknown
Website
http://www.gateofthetemple.com/

Public contacts

email: thegate422@hotmail.com personal published by org
phone: 417-869-3243 public organizational

Addresses

mailing Springfield, MO, 65801
physical Springfield, MO, 65803

Officers (public)

Chaplain: Tom Younce
Junior Deacon: Kevin Cross
Junior Steward: RWB Phil Kent
Junior Warden: Aaron Jones
Marshal: Josh Kelley
Secretary: Greg Ridenhour
Senior Deacon: Jake Waldron
Senior Steward: Devan Darnold
Senior Warden: Don Parrett
Tiler: Victor Shafer
Treasurer: WB Lee Cook
Worshipful Master: Larry Wilson

Website

Website liveness

directory onlyOfficial URLs are kept after they die. Facebook is social, not a replacement site.

Current site
Home | Gate of The Temple HTTP 200
Gate of the Temple Lodge HTTP unchecked
Former sites
none recorded
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/163418304822/

Public-web footprint

Public-web footprint

Rank #1228 worldwide · score 30.6 · med directory onlyTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.

SignalCount / sourcePts
Own official websiteyes18.0
Pages absorbed25.1
Distinct hosts12.8
Social accounts00.0
HTTP 200 / 404 (site-like)0 / 00.0
Last verified (site-like)never0.0
Description corpus chars2281.7
Officers listed publicly00.0
Meeting schedule publishedno0.0
Hall / addressphysical3.0
Proceedings / sketches / assertions00.0
Parent GL membership prior (sourced only)none in corpus0.0

formula v1 · computed 2026-09-20 · join key lodge UUID 6a4971ce-4796-59d1-9055-de260a9d74e5

Lodge lifecycle

Number
422
Status
active
Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge of Missouri, A.F. & A.M.
Opened
unknown
Closed
unknown
Successor
unknown
Meetings
unknown

Events

No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.

Historical lineage

Charter / constitution / claimed descent. Not recognition.

This body traces through / was chartered by

SourceTargetDatesEvidence
Grand Lodge of Missouri, A.F. & A.M.charteredGate of the Temple LodgeunknownunknownSourceautomatically_extracted

Current recognition

Directed edges only. Mutual recognition would appear as two edges.

This organization recognizes

None documented.

Organizations that recognize this one

None documented.

Classifications (attributed)

Exact language from a named body. The database has no is_clandestine flag.

None documented.

No attributed classifications.

Other documented relationships

None documented.

Primary-source corpus

URLs collected about this organization, including directory entries and official pages.

Sourced descriptions

extracted excerptLodgeLocator entity 25 — Grand Lodge of Missouri, A.F. & A.M.

Gate of the Temple Lodge No. 422 listed under Grand Lodge of Missouri, A.F. & A.M. as active at 1700 Boonville St., Springfield, MO, 65803 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.

historical sketch

History | Gate of The Temple Home History Officers Calendar Contact Search Menu Menu Facebook History of Gate of the Temple Lodge No. 422 Masonry Comes To Springfield, MO In June of 1841, eight Masons, who were members of lodges in several states, assembled in Springfield, Missouri and petitioned the Grand Lodge of Missouri to grant them a dispensation to confer the degrees of Masonry, and to transact all other business that might be transacted in a regularly constituted lodge of Master Masons. The request was granted on July 21, 1841, and the lodge was organized under the name of Ozark Lodge No. 50, AF & AM. The lodge was set to work on August 18, 1841. It grew rapidly in membership, but owing to some irregularities in the conduct of the lodge, its charter was arrested by Grand Lodge on October 18, 1847. Several members, however, took immediate action to reorganize and proceeded to form Greene Lodge No. 101. This lodge was chartered by the Grand Lodge on May 12, 1848. Its membership grew rapidly during the next four years and it soon became apparent that another lodge was needed. Consequently a number of members organized Taylor Lodge No. 5, and it was granted a charter by Grand Lodge on May 6, 1852. Both lodges did excellent work but the growth in population of Springfield subsided, and the two lodges, convinced that in unity there is strength, decided that it would be in the best interest of the craft to unite in one body. The two lodges were then merged under the nam

Assertions

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